Fanclub The Royal Handmaiden Society: Episode 9: Revenge of the Handmaidens

Maybe just off-rotation? Hmmm...Maybe she has them doing some recon or something. :~)

I'm still of two minds on Teckla being there for Padme, but no "true" handmaidens...after all, they're with her before and after the Clone Wars, so why not during?

 

May as well finally make it official:

I, Dorme_of_Naboo, pledge my full support to ensure that the RHS threads will continue in a fun but clean manner, in order to ensure our respect to the handmaidens whom we admire and adore.

As an official member of this thread, I will give my 100% support in order to make sure that the RHS continues in a fashion that is acceptable to everyone involved.

Herein where I cheat and copy/paste my LJ post:

"Been a Star Wars fan since I was a little squirt - likely fated since ANH opened on my 7th birthday though I don't recall watching it when I was that age. I've loved the idea of the Handmaidens and don't think that they get NEARLY enough respect. I've also known of the RHS for years but like a dolt, didn't know about the thread (s?) on theforce.net until last night. I'm trying to backread before joining/posting there but when I saw there was a LJ presence, I thought I'd make myself known here (have been a member of the other handmaiden community for years, don't post much)

By the icon based from artwork I had commissioned, you can see my favorite Handmaiden is Dormé and recently I've not just had a plotbunny, but a giant plot rabbit for her jump into my imagination. I'm hoping to weave the plot from slightly pre-AotC time all the way to post RotS and possibly later.

That's all for now! Thanks for listening and hopefully I can catch up on the active thread soon!"

And now that I've caught up, my laptop battery is in need of recharging. Alas!

Aaaanyway, hello again! Hope I can do justice to Dormé and the handmaidens in general and give at least one of them a respectable backstory.

 

Nice to see this thread again. Out of all the handmaidens, Dorme is my fave... next to Padme and Sabe.

 

Thank you!

I don't know a lot about Eirtaé but I like the idea of a handmaiden talented in the ways of strategy. It's a shame that it seems in the movies that their roles appear to be nothing more than being a moving target.

Besides the two roleplay books, the books based on the movies and the one or two Clone Wars eps (that I heard about but haven't gotten two yet, disk 3 of season one is on its way to me via Netflix), are there any other mentions or references about the Handmaidens? I'm thinking of exploring the female warrior/ fabled "Order of Sanctuary" on Naboo aspect mentioned in the one roleplay book as a way to flesh out their background.

 

Welcome to the RHS!

There's the reference where Anakin rescues a couple of handmaidens who decoyed for Padmé, and Sabé is written as having moved to Alderaan to sort of "watch Leia" and tutor her and Winter. There are handmaidens in the video games, as well.

 

*sneaks back into thread*
I should really stop disappearing for years. >.> <.<

Glad to see this thread is still around ^_^

 

Thanks! I need to check in more often since notifications don't come but that's fine

Oooh! Do you know where it's written about Sabé (fanfic or published?)

 

Thank you, Obi Anne, I don't know why I hadn't yet read the Wookiepedia entry for Sabé. It appears there's more information in her profile that relates to general information about the handmaidens than the handmaiden page.

It makes me glad that I've chosen Dormé to write about since she appears to be less defined. I've been trying to find more references to the rumored Order of Sanctuary that is allegedly mentioned in a roleplay guide (don't have that guide) but there don't appear to be any more of those, so I suppose I have some creative freedom to give that a history as well. I'm going on the assumption that not necessarily all of handmaidens would have to be from that Order

 

Whew, it's been such a long time since I've actually logged-in that I forgot my password for a moment there!

Just jumping in to wave hello to everyone and to welcome the new members.

All this Dormé talk has reminded me to add Wicker Park (featuring Rose Byrne) to the Josh Harnett movie-marathon I had planned for this weekend.

 

Hi!

It seems Rose has had a LOT of roles lately. There's a new thriller called Insidious (not my thing), a comedy with SNL gals called Bridesmaids (where it looks like she plays the snooty perfect one) and then she's going to be in the new X Men movie (which I'd like to see her character in that)

I also have Get Him to the Greek next on my Netflix list after I saw her hilarious risqué songs on youtube.

 

Looks like Padmé will be back in battlemaiden gear for season 4 of Clone Wars....

 

Netflix was my friend when it came to catching up on Clone Wars - with the exception of the season 3 ones that I hope they rerun. It's interesting because I normally can't get into an animated series but they've done so well with Clone Wars that I'm addicted.

It would be nice if they'd put more than just Teckla's storyline in - it grates to watch Padmé running around with only Jar Jar and Threepio for protection.

 

Yeah...I'm not entirely sure I count JarJar as much protection. :~)

You'd think that since she handmaidens in AOTC, and has handmaidens in ROTS, there'd be at least one or two lurking around in the background somewhere! We should start a campaign.

 

If real life would ease up a tad, I'm hoping to get a book or two written that'll hopefully give the handmaidens a better image

But a campaign couldn't hurt!

 

By the looks of that sample, I think it would look perfect for the gold throne gown. It's lovely and I hope that it works for your project!

 

Very nice!

 

Probably not! But still a funny moment